Various uses; a few sites actually on Saint Helena but most elsewhere. Used fordomain hacks in English and other languages, for places and regions that can be abbreviated withsh, and for some websites related to theUnix shell
Registration restrictions
2nd-level registrant must have a professional or academic qualification (apparently not actually enforced); 3rd-level registrant must be resident on Saint Helena
Structure
Registrations are taken directly at the second level or the third level beneath various 2nd-level labels
A majority of sites under the .sh domain have nothing to do with Saint Helena, Ascension or Tristan da Cunha.[2]
Members ofDeviantArt are able to go to their "stash," a service where digital media can be uploaded, stored and published.[3] The DeviantArt "stash" uses the .sh top level domainsta.sh.
Sketch comedyYouTube channelSmosh uses thesmo.sh domain name to link to addresses on their website, smosh.com.[4] Similarly, theBabish Culinary Universe channel's website uses thebabi.sh domain name.[5]
SH is theofficial abbreviation for the German federal state ofSchleswig-Holstein and the .sh domain is used for sites likenah.sh, a public transportation site[7] as well as the Verbraucherzentrale (verbraucherzentrale.sh), theSPD party (spd.sh) and for some subpages by the official Schleswig-Holstein government (e.g.wahlen.sh).
